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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 L. E. SIMPSON.

PUZZLE.

N0. 388,226. Patented Aug. 21,1888.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

L. E. SIMPSON.

PUZZLE.

No. 388,226. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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LIZZIE E. snvrrson, on NEW YORK, u. r.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ?atent No. 388,226, dated August 21, 1883.

Application filed November 12, 1887. Serial No. 254,948.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LIZZIE E. SIMPsoN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Puzzle, of which the following is a. full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a puzzle, and has for its object to provide an inexpensive device wherein the points adapted to be made will be difficult to carry out, and wherein an interesting study and pastime will be aiforded therefrom to children and adults.

lhe invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 illustrates one method of producing the puzzle. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same when completed for use, and Fig. 3 is a section on line a; a: of Fig. 2.

In carrying out theinventiou a board, A, is provided, constructed of wood, pasteboard, metal, or equivalent material, and of any suit able or desired size or shape, preferably round.

In the board a series of pin-holes, a, are arranged in series of five in such manner as to produce nine intersecting straight or substantially straight lines. To properly position the said pin holesa guideis necessary, which guide is obtained by first drawing upon the board nine lines (numbered in Fig. 1 from 1 to 9) in such manner as that the said lines will in tersect in the most puzzling manner. One arrangement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which resembles in outline an eightpointed star. I do not, however, confine myself to this particular combination of the lines, as other combinations may be effected, that shown being preferred. The lines having been properly drawn, five pin-apertures a are produced in each line at suitable distances apart, the said aperture being located at the intersections of the various lines. A number of baftie-apertures, b, are now made in the board, which baffleapertures are arranged promis- (No model.)

cuously around the board and between the pinapertures, the purpose of the apertures b being to hide the alignment of the pin-apertures, and thereby baffle the operator in an attempt to trace them. The guide-lines having been erased from the surface of the board, it is ready for use, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and it is then impossible without close attention and study to discern a single alignment of live apertures extending across the board.

In further carrying out the invention nineteen pegs, D, are employed, which pegs are preferably made conical and numbered upon their heads from 1 to 19.

In working out the puzzle it is intended that the pegs or pins be placed in the apertures a. in such order that nine lines of pegs, each line consisting of five, will extend across the board without a baffie-aperture intervening any two pins or pegs upon any of the nine lines.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A puzzle consisting of a board provided with a series a pin-apertures arranged in intersecting lines and baffle-apertures promiscuously arranged upon the board contiguous to said lines of pin-apertures, substantially as shown and described.

2. A puzzle consisting of a board provided with series of five pin-apertures arranged in nine intersecting lines and baifle-apertures promiscuously arranged upon the board contiguous to said lines of pin-apertures, substantially as shown and described.

8. In a puzzle, the combinatiomwith a board provided with series of five pin-apertures arranged in nine intersecting lines and bafi'leapertures promiscuously arranged upon the board contiguous to said lines of pin-apertures, of a series of nineteen pegs adapted for insertion in the pin-apertures, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

, LIZZIE E. SIMPSON.

Vitnesses:

J. T. ACKER, Jr., 0. SEDGWICK. 

